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In my experience, it was an attempt to prune the stuff in old API that wasn’t useful. A successful attempt, since the backend working on it was in the same room as me and I could yell at him.

So you just gave him an excuse to go have a coffee break and wondered why he didn’t care? :P

I keep wishing that one day I’ll find a place to taste baklava made with pistachios. It’s always peanuts instead.

Man, the variable scoping thing is insidious. It will never not be weird to me that ifs and loops don’t actually create a new scope.

And then you try to do a closure and it tells you you didn’t import anything yet.

It depends, but the place I’m staying at right now has it hooked up to hot and cold water with one of those sliding plate faucet handles.

I think they’re called “hygienic showers” and it’s basically a small showerhead with a thumb button on the end to turn on/off. They’re getting pretty trendy with new construction flats.

The only downside is that they tend to drip a bit after you return them to the cradle.

I get what you mean, but from the way you wrote it, I am now imagining someone slurping the crab in the kitchen for you :D

Watching youtubers play the souls games is pretty fun, although they do skip all the tedious bits.

Dunno about ugly, it has some gorgeous views, but I agree about tedious and boring.

The wow factor of finding new places did NOT offset the tiresome enemies that followed.

A simple spray hose next to the toilet is so great. Not only for use as a bidet but also for cleaning

Yeah, I remember when I was trying to parse XML into some lua tables and it forever stumped me how to represent something like

<thing important_param=10 other_param="abracadabra"> stuff </thing>

You just have to have different ways to turn different tags into stuff in your program and that’s a huge amount of overhead to think about when all I want is a hash map and maybe an array.

Genuinely, why? Personally, I’m happy to eat basically same meals for a few days before they get boring, and you can vary your sandwiches a lot of you so desire.

I used to use FTP for file transfer, nowadays I just start up a HTTPS server on the source machine and grab stuff from there.

Well, it was a spur-of-the-moment sort of thing when I went and looked at their site and it just had a bunch of names with no numbers there under the book art.

Went and checked now and site looks entirely different, and I can clearly see the issue numbers. I don’t know, maybe I hallucinated it.

Yeah. I tried getting into comics once and got a multi-gigabyte archive of deadpool stuff.

…couldn’t make heads or tails of it.

Actually couldn’t get into IDW sonic/transformers for the same reason. WHERE DO I START!?

What do you mean unseasoned, they have salt on them. smh

Perfectly good boiled potatoes and stew.

“speak-singing” is a thing some people do to work around language issues, apparently it’s an entirely different part of the brain.

Anything an API returns should just look like 1720533944.963659 .

There’s no reason to store dates as anything other than UTC. User-side, sure, timezones are useful. Server doesn’t have to know.

There are usually plenty of choices for ISPs here, actually. But switching between them isn’t likely to give me IPv6 since either they share a magistral or the hardware is just plain old. That, and IPv6 is just not a thing anyone markets.

…and with the current fuckery going on, I doubt many of them have budget for big upgrades. Or maybe even access to hardware to buy.

Yeah, here in Russia the ISPs and IT infrastructure guys seem to be treating IPv6 like it has cooties. I can’t find an article (and it’d be in russian anyway) but as far back as 2022, if you get IPv6 you can expect a variety of issues with it, ranging from “you need to reboot your router every once in a while” to “you technically have v6 but good luck actually browsing v6 internet”.

And of course, why would they give you a stable IP when they can charge for it :T. At least it’s only a third the price of a stable IPv4.

My current ISP technically provides v6 according to their site - but my connection doesn’t have it, and since there’s nothing about it in the years-old contract, I’d need to redo that if I want to complain.